Prae-mortem

I am convinced that the dead-house has had its day, and that prae-mortem, rather than post-mortem studies should engage our attention.

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In intellectual work, as in work of most other kinds, one condition for success is the ability to lay out, to the best advantage, the short span of a human being’s working lifetime between infancy and death (or, worse than death itself, prae-mortem senility).

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[…]God, or the ascent apocalypses with the prae-mortem ascent to heaven of an elect hero.

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